H1 now blue, underlined, in ade

[brewt]

When I switched up to Calibre 0.7.4, my tocs now all turned blue, and my h1 styles (and sometimes h2) are all now blue, underlined, and act like a hyperlink (even tho they don't connect to anything) with epub output, when viewed in ADE, sony library, barnes & noble/pc,
Not the case in calibre viewer, nor firefox epub reader.
Exact same source file I conjured a week ago. So was there something wrong before I couldn't see, or is it just me?
-bjc

[kovidgoyal]

weird, can you attach a source file that results in this when converted to epub?

[brewt]

Santa claus attached:
My original xhtml source & css
calibre-zip file
calibre-generated epub.
Headlines show up as blue & underlined, like they were links, in ade (and apparently, all ade-derivitive softwares), but not in calibre viewer.
No doubt I've been doing something hideously wrong all along, but I have no idea what. Thoughts?

-bjc

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by brewt

Santa claus attached:
My original xhtml source & css
calibre-zip file
calibre-generated epub.
Headlines show up as blue & underlined, like they were links, in ade (and apparently, all ade-derivitive softwares), but not in calibre viewer.
No doubt I've been doing something hideously wrong all along, but I have no idea what. Thoughts?

-bjc

In your original source you have an anchor <a> tag surrounding the Heading text, for use in the table of contents.

I haven't been able to find a clear statement that the text in such a tag shouldn't be displayed as a link if the tag doesn't have an href attribute (although it seems obvious that it shouldn't), so it not possible to say that ADE's behaviour is a definite bug.

I'd suggest adding the id attribute to your <h...> tags, rather than including an explicit <a> tag. If you really need to use the <a> tag instead, make it an empty <a id="" /> tag instead.

[brewt]

Hmmmm. The
<h1><a name="_Toc265141132" id="_Toc263862676">
isn't being hand-placed by me, my old friend Word is doing that automagically when I have it build a toc page, or some other hyperlink. (see the reference at the end of Santa and follow it back - there's a blue/underline word there, too, that has the same issue.) An yes, stripping the <a> out fixes the appearance but breaks my hyperlink. <id=""> still leaves the <h1> blue.

Calibre-to-ade didn't do this a week ago, is there a config change I missed? Even if the 'new' way is better and improved? (this kinda thwarts my sense of easy....)

-bjc

[kovidgoyal]

calibre used to force a CSS level override precisely to get around this ADE rendering bug. I removed that recently because it meant that people whoo wanted their <a> tags styled a certain way couldn't do it because of the override.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by brewt

An yes, stripping the <a> out fixes the appearance but breaks my hyperlink. <id=""> still leaves the <h1> blue.

Try stripping out the <a> after Calibre's initial conversion. It looks like Calibre adds its own id tag to the h1 tags for use as a link from the TOC.

But I haven't looked very closely at all the stages of this.

[brewt]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

calibre used to force a CSS level override precisely to get around this ADE rendering bug. I removed that recently because it meant that people whoo wanted their <a> tags styled a certain way couldn't do it because of the override.

So is there something I could put into the css to re-induce this?

-bjc

[kovidgoyal]

a { color: inherit; text-decoration: inherit; cursor: default; }
a[href] { color: blue; 'text-decoration: underline; cursor:pointer; }

[brewt]

Originally Posted by brewt

So is there something I could put into the css to re-induce this?

-bjc

Hey, I figured it out! Al by my little lonesome!

A {text-decoration: none; color: black;}

in my css!


Thanks, guys....

-bjc


p.s., oh, hey, yours works better - thanks Kovid! You stilldaman.